August 7, 2023

Whitmer signs bills making child marriage illegal, unmarried cohabitation legal – ABC 13

Whitmer signs bills making child marriage illegal, unmarried cohabitation legal LANSING, Mich. — Michigan’s governor has signed bills […]
December 5, 2019

Advocates push to outlaw child marriage in Michigan, citing sexual abuse concerns – Michigan Advance

The state Legislature has yet to take up a bipartisan bill package that would outlaw child marriages by […]
June 22, 2017

Shocked About Child Marriage in Massachusetts, High School Student Takes Action to Help Stop the Abuse

In Massachusetts between 2010 and 2014 almost 200 children, mostly girls were married, some as young as 15. […]
March 22, 2017

New York is Stepping Up to End Child Marriage – Can They Do Even More?

By Amanda Parker, AHA Foundation Senior Director Child Marriage in the US Each day around the world thousands […]
October 15, 2015

Child Marriage in the US

by AHA Foundation Executive Director The statistics are staggering. Each day around the world almost 39,000 girls become […]
October 15, 2015

Speaking Out About America’s Child Marriage Problem

In a new op-ed for the New York Times, Fraidy Reiss, forced marriage survivor and Executive Director of […]
October 14, 2015

Hila’s Story: Choosing a Life of Hiding to Escape Honor Violence

By *Hila In the 70s, my parents emigrated from Yemen to the U.S. While they did many things […]
March 20, 2015

Unchained at Last’s Fraidy Reiss in the NY Times Discussing Forced Marriage in the US

AHA Foundation sister organization Unchained at Last and its Founder, Fraidy Reiss, are featured in this New York […]